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[Cartoon Catalyst Blog Series] The New Age Textbook – Implications of BYOD on K12 Education
Today we’re talking tablets versus textbooks in the first of a series of blog posts inspired by cartoons. Does anyone have a good memory of their education textbooks? Textbooks are cumbersome… anyone disagree? Most textbooks are a bulky nuisance weighing down backpacks of elementary to high school…
The 2017 Internet: A Look at the Future, Courtesy of the Cisco VNI Forecast
Visualize this: nearly half the Earth’s population – 3.6 billion people – connected to the Internet for communication, commerce, education, information, and entertainment. Think that’s too futuristic? Think again. By 2017, less than five years from today, that will be our reality. This prediction i…
Cloud for Local Government Global Blog Series, Cloud and Law Enforcement (Part One): U.K.’s Facewatch Service Benefits …
This is the first in a two-part blog series that examines the opportunities that cloud-based services offer to law enforcement agencies—along with the challenges of this fundamental shift in the way information resources are managed. Police forces have a well-established culture of owning and managi…
How to Build a Happier and More Efficient Team
For those of us in large enterprises, it’s easy to feel lost in the sea of employees. With the rise of mobility, virtualization, and BYOD, many of us in the tech industry work from home, other offices, or even other countries. Because of this, many of us miss the chance to build good relationships w…
Have You Registered for K-12 & Public Safety May 22nd?
Improving School Safety with Your WLAN See how your campus Wi-Fi can improve emergency response Register Now | May 22, 2013 10AM-11AM PDT Tony De La Rosa shared with us a teaser last week about the riveting webinar we have coming up this week on how Wi-Fi technology can be used in K-1…
Register for the K-12 Education: Using Wireless Technologies in Public Safety Webcast
Innovate the education environment by deploying Cisco BYOD Solutions for K-12 to facilitate teaching innovation and emergency safety . Small, medium, and large school districts across the country are utilizing Cisco technology to provide pervasive wireless coverage for their schools. Wireless co…
Cisco UCS – Changing the Economics of the Datacenter
Cisco UCS has fantastic technology that technical decision makers are demanding. But what about business decision makers? It doesn’t matter how great the technology is, the question for BDMs is how will UCS save me money? I set out to answer that question, connecting UCS technology innovations…
Live: 802.11ac with No Strings Attached
Coming off a busy week at Interop Las Vegas, we have recorded another info-packed podcast with the popular wireless networking podcast group “No Strings Attached Show”. The topic for this podcast covers the gigabit wireless technology, 802.11ac which if you attended Interop, you know this is a very…
Public Safety in K-12 and the Wi-Fi Network
It’s no surprise that student safety is the upmost priority to educators, administration, and parents. I would know because I have two daughters in K-12. The topic of safety in K-12 schools strikes particularly close to home since one of my daughters has already been in a lockdown due to police acti…